Second Announcement and Call for Proposals

October 2008

The Mathematics Education into the 21st Century Project
together with

The University of Applied Sciences Dresden (Germany)

are proud to announce our

10th (Anniversary!) International Conference

“Models in Developing Mathematics Education”

September 11-17, 2009

Dresden, Saxony, Germany

in cooperation with

Saxony Ministry of Education

SaxonyMinistry of Science and Art

The Institute for Educational Progress (IQB), Berlin

DresdenUniversity of Technology (TU)

Gesellschaft für Didaktik der Mathematik (GDM)

MUED, DQME II, MAV, MERGA, Wholemovement

The Hong Kong Institute of Education

Major Sponsors

CASIO Autograph

Dynatech VON ARDENNE

The Mathematics Education into the 21st Century project, in partnership with the Dresden University of Applied Sciences, warmly welcomes you to our 10th International Conference on "“Models in Developing Mathematics Education”" from Sep11-17, 2009, in the heart of the historic & beautiful city of Dresden. The conference will open with an evening Welcome Reception on Friday, Sep 11 and will finish with lunch on Thursday, Sep 17. There will be an additional social programme for accompanying persons. The chairman of the Local Organising Committee is Prof. Dr. Ludwig Paditz of the DresdenUniversity of Applied Sciences. For ALL further conference details and updates please email (please delete the out of date addresses and from your address book )

Our Invitation: “Come and Join us in the Heart of the New Europe”

Our conferences are renowned for their friendly and productive working atmosphere and are attended by innovative teachers and mathematics educators from all over the world – for example 32 countries were represented at our 2007 conference in the USA! The conference in Dresden follows on from our nine previous Project Conferences held in the following places: next to the pyramids in Cairo in 1999, in the historic Holy Land in Jordan in 2000, a country retreat in Poland 2001, where the Great Barrier Reef meets the rain forest in Australia 2001, on the coast of Sicily in 2002, in Brno, the historic capital of Moravia, Czech Republic in 2003, in Ciechocinek, a spa town in Poland in 2004, in Malaysia overlooking the Straits of Johor and Singapore Island in 2005, and in the scenic surroundings of Charlotte, North Carolina, USA in the New World in 2007.

The Dresden Conference is organised by the Mathematics Education into the 21st Century Project - an international educational initiative whose coordinators are Dr. Alan Rogerson (Poland) and Professor Fayez Mina (Egypt). Since its inception in 1986, the Mathematics Education into the 21st Century Project has received support and funding from many educational bodies and institutions throughout the world. In 1992 UNESCO published our Project Handbook "Moving Into the 21st Century" as Volume 8 in the UNESCO series Studies In Mathematics Education.

The Mathematics Education into the 21st Century Project is dedicated to the improvement of mathematics education worldwide through the publication and dissemination of innovative ideas and materials. Many prominent mathematics educators have supported and contributed to the project, including the late Hans Freudental, Andrejs Dunkels and Hilary Shuard, as well as Bruce Meserve and Marilyn Suydam, Alan Osborne and Margaret Kasten, Mogens Niss, Tibor Nemetz, Ubi D’Ambrosio, Brian Wilson, Tatsuro Miwa, Henry Pollak, Werner Blum, Roberto Baldino, Waclaw Zawadowski, and many others throughout the world.

Information about our project and future work can be found on the following webpages. Our Project Home Page: leads directly to the Dresden Conference First Announcement pdf and to the paper proceedings of all previous conferences. Filippo Spagnolo, of PalermoUniversity, is webmaster for the above site. Andreas Filler at has a photo album of our Charlotte Conference and also at of our Ciechocinek Conference. For the Brno conference there is also a local Website with all English and Czech papers at For our Polish Superkurs Home Page and National Planning Meetings webpage see: (in Polish - but with pictures!)

The Mathematics Education into the 21st Century Project has the following National Representatives:Dr. Jean Michel Hanna Egypt, Dr. Reda Abu-Elwan Oman, Assistant Professor Othman Alsawaie UAE, Professor Noor Azlan Ahmad Zanzali Malaysia, Professor Angel Balderas Mexico, Dr. René Berthelot France, Dr. Cinzia Bonotto Italy, Gail Burrill USA, Professor Indira Chacko India, Prof Dr.Erik De Corte Belgium, Prof. Dr. Franco Favilli Italy, Professor Gunnar Gjone Norway, Professor Doctor Gunter Graumann Germany, Pam Hagen Canada, Dr. Marjorie Henningsen Lebanon, Dr. Hanan Innabi Jordan, Professor George Malaty Finland, Prof Dr. Ivan Meznik Czech Republic, Willy Mwakapenda Malawi/South Africa, Dr. Maria Luisa Oliveras Spain, Chris Ormell UK, Lionel Pereira-Mendoza Canada, Dr. Medhat Rahim Canada, Dr. Fatimah Saleh Malaysia, Dr. Maher Y. Shawer USA, Professor Anthony Sofo Australia, Dr. Filippo Spagnolo Italy, Teresa Vergani Portugal, Professor Derrick Young South Africa, Professor Wacek Zawadowski Poland.

SuperCourse

Our latest International Initiative - SuperCourse - began work in 2001 and now has writing teams and writers throughout the world. Our First International Conference for SuperCourse was held in June/July 2001 in Zajaczkowo, Poland. National Polish SuperCourse meetings have been held every year after 2002 in Ciechocinek, Poland and work is ongoing internationally for SuperCourse. A Resources Book in English and in Arabic has already been published by the SuperCourse Arabic Group in Cairo. Two years draft text books have been completed in Poland in January 2003 and testing has been ongoing throughout 2004-8 in Poland and in Germany, Hungary and the UK as part of two European Union Comenius Projects: DQME I and DQME II. We look forward to continuing this work with our writing teams in 2008/9 linked to the EU Comenius Continuation Network Project DQME II.

Dresden 2009 Conference Committees

International Program Committee

Chairmen

Dr. Alan Rogerson, Coordinator of the Mathematics in Society Project (Poland).

Prof Dr Fayez Mina, Professor Emeritus, AinShamsUniversity (Egypt).

Prof Khaled Abuloum, University of Jordan (Jordan).

Professor Roberto Baldino, UNESP (Brazil).

Dr Andy Begg, AucklandUniversity of Technology (New Zealand).

Dr. Donna F. Berlin, The OhioStateUniversity (USA).

Prof. Dr. Werner Blum, University of Kassel (Germany).

Professor Ubiratan D'Ambrosio, Campinas/UNICAMP, (Brazil).

Professor Bruno D'Amore, University of Bologna (Italy).

Professor Dr. Tilak de Alwis, Southeastern Louisiana University (USA).
Prof Dr William Ebeid, Emeritus Professor, AinShamsUniversity (Egypt).

Professor Paul Ernest, University of Exeter (UK).

Prof. Dr. Gabriele Kaiser, Hamburg University (Germany).

Dr. Madeleine J. Long, HunterCollege, CityUniversity of New York(USA).

Prof Nicolina Malara, University of Modena (Italy).

Prof Dr M. Ali M. Nassar, Institute of National Planning (Egypt).

Professor Lionel Pereira Mendoza, Educational Consultant (Canada).

Professor Angela Pesci, University of Pavia (Italy).

Prof. Medhat Rahim, LakeheadUniversity, Faculty of Education (Canada).

Professor Filippo Spagnolo, University of Palermo, Sicily, (Italy).

Professor Dr. Alicia Villar Icasuriaga, IPA, Montevideo, (Uruguay).

Dr. Arthur L. White, The OhioStateUniversity ( USA).

Professor. Wacek Zawadowski, Siedlce University (Poland).

Local Organizing Committee

Chairman:
Prof. Dr. Ludwig Paditz, DresdenUniversity of Applied Sciences.
Vice-Chairman
Dr. Rainer Heinrich, Ministry of Education of Saxony.

Prof. Dr. Stefan Deschauer, Dresden Technical University.
Prof. Dr. Michael Jung, DresdenUniversity of Applied Sciences.
Prof. Dr. Claus Lange, DresdenUniversity of Applied Sciences.
Prof. Dr. Klaus Neumann, DresdenUniversity of Applied Sciences.
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Preuß,DresdenUniversity of Applied Sciences.
Prof. Dr. Matthias Richter, DresdenUniversity of Applied Sciences.
Prof. Dr. Margit Voigt, DresdenUniversity of Applied Sciences.
Prof. Dr. Matthias Weber, DresdenUniversity of Applied Sciences.
Dr. Hans-Dieter Dahlke, DresdenUniversity of Applied Sciences.
Dr. Martina Timmler, DresdenUniversity of Applied Sciences.

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

The Mathematics Education into the 21st Century Project serves as an international forum for both researchers and teachers. Innovation is our major objective and this includes special interests such as: maths for living, humanizing maths education, equity and ethno-mathematics, the effective use of new educational technology in the classroom, adopting new paradigms, etc. Our accumulated experiences are represented in the eightvolumes of previous conference proceedings (in addition to our UNESCO handbook). There are now more than 40 years of research-in-action represented in our project's work - including the vast didactic innovations of SMP and other UK projects in the 1960s and 1970s, national initiatives in Germany, Holland, Scandinavia, Australia, Brazil, etc in the 1970s and 1980s, and many other major innovative projects throughout the world. Our Project has tried to learn as much as possible from as many people as possible with the aim of implementing these innovative ideas in the teaching of mathematics, science, statistics and informatics in schools and higher education. The scientific underpinning of our project’s work owes much to the seminal works of creative thinkers such as Polya, Kuhn, Lakatos, Wittgenstein and Freire.

The Major Goals of this Dresden Conference

  • To support communication and collaboration - to put teachers and researchers in contact for their mutual benefit.
  • To present and publish not only research papers, but also significant new ideas and classroom experiences from teachers.
  • To share innovative and creative models for enacting reform in the areas of: educational research in teaching and learning, educational technology, curriculum development, mathematics teachers preparation and development, school organization and policy, classroom practices and issues of equity and ethno-mathematics
  • To document and widely disseminate ideas and models presented at the conference
  • To initiate new and creative models to help solve endemic problems in education.

The Program Committees for the Conference invite mathematics, statistics, informatics and science teachers, university faculty members, national and regional coordinators and administrators from all countries to submit proposals for inclusion in the Conference Programme and publication in the Conference Proceedings.

We welcome proposals that deal with all aspects of innovative models in mathematics, statistics, science and computer education, especially those helping to make these subjects more "alive", more "realistic" and more "accessible" to students in the future. Your proposal could take the form of a paper or workshop on models for:

  • problem solving and modelling
  • use of technology
  • assessment
  • dealing with cultural differences
  • overcoming gender and social barriers
  • improving the curriculum
  • teacher preparation and ongoing in-service development
  • policy initiatives
  • school organization
  • classroom practices
  • using statistics in everyday life
  • effectively utilizing new paradigms in teaching and learning
  • rich learning tasks
  • applications of mathematics in the real world
  • the use of mathematics in the sciences and in informatics

If you wish to present a paper or workshop please send a proposal of less than one page clearly indicating:

-your name and institution

-your email address

-the title of your paper

-a short summary or abstract of your paper or workshop

-what area of innovative education your topic falls under

-what specific way your paper/workshop will relate to the theme of the conference.

English will be the official language of the conference (and of the proceedings which will be printed before the conference, and available on-line afterwards).

Please note, however, we are planning special parallel working sessions at the weekend for teachers and mathematics educators in German, Polish and possibly also Czech/Slovak. Please indicate if you are interested in participating in these sessions and presenting a paper in those languages.

Deadlines

1. Proposals should be sent as an MSWord document by email only as soon as possible, and not later than April 25, 2009, to .

2. For workshop presenters
Please send a "workshop summary" of 1-6 pages which will be published in the pre-conference printed proceedings and also online after the conference. This is to help you advertise your workshop to participants who will have the proceedings in their hands when they register, and also to have a permanent record of your work after the conference. Please note all detailed format requirementsbelow apply to both workshop summaries and papers.

3. Abstracts
Please include at the start of your final paper or workshop summary an abstract which should NOT be longer than 15 lines (font12). Below is a MODEL paper formatted exactly as we require, including the correct placement of the abstract – please use this to guide you in formatting your paper correctly. Below are the detailed instructions for sending papers and workshop summaries, please follow them to the letter so we can edit your papers easily and quickly. Papers not fulfilling these requirements will be returned for correction! (Please note that IF you put your email address in your document it will facilitate colleagues getting in touch with you but at the same time it will also place your email address automatically in the public domain)

4. Final Papers and Workshop-Summaries should be sent as MSWord documents by email to arrive as soon as possible and not later than April 30, 2009.

All accepted proposals will be eligible for presentation in the conference programme and inclusion in the pre-conference printed proceedings and the post-conference on-line proceedings.

Please note that papers can only be included in the final programme and printed in the proceedings if received from participants who have already registered for the conference and have paid their registration fee.

All presenters will be allocated in the conference programme a minimum of 30 minutes (papers) and 45 minutes (workshops) to describe their innovative practice(s) and highlight how they have worked in their respective countries and professional settings. Each presentation should be structured as follows: (1) Statement of the problem or obstacle that spurred the innovation; (2) description of the model for solution/innovation; (3) description/evidence of the extent to which the model was successful with respect to the targeted problem/obstacle; and (4) possibilities for transfer of the model to different environments.

After the individual presentation is completed, there will be questions and answers and an open discussion facilitated by a session moderator/chairman only if there is time remaining within the 30 or 45 minutes allocated above. Please prepare your presentation so that it does not simply repeat your paper word for word (all participants will have in front of them the text of your paper in the pre-conference printed proceedings). Please ensure that you allow some time for discussion and questions and answers after your talk, within the strict time limits mentioned above. Working Group leaders have been asked to insist that ALL speakers keep strictly to their allotted time as a courtesy to the following speakers!

Format for ALL submitted papers and workshop-summaries

The paper, or workshop-summary, must be in the form of a Microsoft Word Document only (NOT pdf or any other formatted files) and must be sent as an email attachment (faxes, scanned copies or posted hard copies cannot be accepted).

All Papers and Workshop-summaries should follow these guidelines:

1.Single spaced A4, Times New Roman font size 12

2.Not longer than 6 pages (please do not send papers in smaller fonts)

3.NO headers, NO Footers and NO page numbers.

4.ALL non-text items in the paper (diagrams, graphs, etc) must be included in the body of the text in the appropriate places.

5.NO MACROS nor editing nor correcting programs should still be active.

6.PLEASE check, BEFORE you send it, that your paper prints out correctly using Microsoft Word (we have had problems with this in the past).

7.Please check that your whole text is uniformly formatted throughout in MSWord, and especially watch out for empty format boxes as headers and footers, you should remove these because even though they are not visible they interfere with final editing.

8.Please ensure that your document is virus free by using anti-virus scans.

9.Please do NOT send more than one copy of your paper, there should be only one final MS Word version.

(PLEASE BE SURE TO FOLLOW THESE GUIDELINES, OR YOUR PAPER WILL BE RETURNED TO YOU FOR CORRECTION)

Model Example of How to Start Your Document: Title/Name/etc/Abstract/Text...

Reform, Revolution and Paradigm Shifts in Mathematics Education
Some Examples and Applicable Strategies
Fayez M. Mina, MA PhD C.Math FIMA
Emeritus Professor of Curriculum and Instruction,
Faculty of Education, Ain Shams University,
Roxy, Heliopolis, Cairo, Egypt

Abstract
The major aims of this paper are: To present paradigm shifts in mathematics education and their implications on the area, to analyze some attempts to implement them and to suggest some applicable strategies to bridge the gap between “theory and practice”. Paradigm shifts in the area lead to many trends in mathematics education, such as: Concentrating on developing creativity, integrated curricula, introducing major changes in the teaching and evaluation processes, employing “complexity” in dealing with different issues, using advanced technology in learning and teaching processes.. etc. The examination of relevant educational materials show that, when these materials are fully applied, there are some models, may be some steps, to be used in developing mathematics education. Nevertheless, there still exists a gap between them and “ theory “. The study is concluded by suggesting some alternatives to those suggested trends in order to bridge the gap between theory and practice, at least in long term.
Introduction
It seems that the real problem is not related to identifying paradigm shifts in mathematics education. It is rather related to the procedures taken to put these shifts into practice. Many educational systems have attempted some reforms in the area of mathematics education, may be revolutions, but still a gap exists between “ theory and practice “, sometimes are due to the whole system of education and other times are due to choices of teachers and parents.
The major aims of this paper are: To present paradigm shifts in mathematics education and their implication on teaching/learning mathematics, to analyze some attempts to implement them (1), and suggest some applicable strategies to bridge the gap between “theory and practice”.
Needless to say, mathematics education is a sub-system of the whole curriculum in a society, which is -in its turn- a sub-system of the educational system in such a society, the societal conditions, as well as the regional and humanistic cultures (including the process of globalization).